Hallie Rubenstein, a senior at Lafayette High School, has been selected as one of five students from Virginia to march with Macy's Great American Marching Band in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. [Read More]

A 3-year-old was in critical condition Monday at a Lubbock hospital after what Fort Stockton police believe was a case of child abuse over the weekend in that West Texas town. According to the Fort Stockton Police Department, officers were dispatched around 10 a.m. Saturday to the Pecos County Memorial Hospital. When they arrived, officers found the child who was actively being treated for life-threatening head and body injuries.The child was airlifted to Covenant Children's Hospital in Lubbock... [Read More]

Two U.S. Navy SEALs and two Marines have been charged in the strangulation death of an Army Green Beret from Lubbock while the service members were stationed in the African country of Mali last year, the Navy announced last week.Charging documents describe a situation in which some of the nation's most elite military personnel - including two members of the famed SEAL Team Six - broke into Army Staff Sgt. Logan Melgar's bedroom while he was sleeping,... [Read More]

A major Asia-Pacific summit's failure to agree on a communique resulted from certain countries "excusing" protectionism, a top Chinese diplomat said, in a veiled criticism of Washington that further sours the tone of China-U.S. ties ahead of a G20 meet. [Read More]

Police in suburban St. Louis on Monday were searching Monday for a gunman who went into a religious supply store, sexually assaulted at least one woman and shot a woman in the head. Police said the shooting victim later died at a hospital. The shooting happened about 3:15 p.m. at a Catholic Supply of St. Louis store in western St. Louis County, near the town of Ballwin. Police were looking for a man about 5-foot-7 with a heavy build, and said he should be considered armed and dangerous. The gunman walked into the store and sexually assaulted at least... [Read More]

One game into the season, the Father McGivney boys' basketball team is very much a work in progress. The Griffins lost 55-23 to Cowden-Herrick Beecher on Monday in the opening round of pool play at the Mulberry Grove Turkey Tournament. FMCHS, in its third varsity season was 8-21 last year after going 2-26 during its inaugural season in 2016-17. Graduation losses from last season included a pair of 6-foot-5 starters, Logan Shumate and Alex Loeffler Shumate led the team in scoring (15.8 points) and rebounding (10.6), while Loeffler was second in both categories with 10.9 points... [Read More]